The young ones

Our Thursday afternoon group has largely younger children in it, Our main aim with these children at the moment is to provide them with a safe and happy second home.We try to provide them with a wide variety of activities to stimulate their interest and amongst these activities we try to provide a tactile activity.

The pictures today show children playing with the dolls houses. These children were lost in their small world play for most of half an hour.Another picture shows a new little boy enjoying constructing with the Popoids.

The last couple of pictures show todays activity in the hall . The children had the balancing beams out which they talked about as being bridges over the water. Some of the children extended the activity by getting the chalk and drawing stepping stones in the water to keep them safe from the sharks and the crocs. They also drew these creatures amongst the stepping stones. It may look like we are encouraging graffitti but in actual fact drawing on this scale helps develop the correct muscles ready for when the children take the first steps to writing.